Examples of negatively curved manifold (after Ontaneda)

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, November 4, 2011 - 2:05pm for 2 hours
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Igor Belegradek – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Igor Belegradek
This is the first in the series of two talks aimed to discuss a recent work of Ontaneda which gives a poweful method of producing negatively curved manifolds. Ontaneda's work adds a lot of weight to the often quoted Gromov's prediction that in a sense most manifolds (of any dimension) are negatively curved.